Riot Squads, Privatization, and the National Front: David Peace’s GB84

In 1984, the Thatcher regime and the British National Coal Board annulled an agreement reached after the 1974 British miners’ strike. The Board told the British public that they intended to close 20 coal mines and privatize the previously nationalized industry. At least twenty thousand jobs would be lost, and many communities in the north … Continue reading Riot Squads, Privatization, and the National Front: David Peace’s GB84